by Tiffany Sewell

Created on: February 05, 2011

We have fallen into the "old routine" again

I know you can feel it, too

My womanly qualities have diminished

As I now feel like "just a friend" to you

We sometimes go days or weeks

Without a simple hug or kiss

Does this feel normal to you?

These are the little things I miss

Every night I feel so alone

Even when you are lying next to me

Each of us are in our own world

Perhaps in our own fantasies

My heart still quickens when you come home

Hoping maybe something has changed

But as you pass right by me without even a glance

I know things are still the same

Why do we say "I love you"

When we leave each other or hang up the phone?

Shouldn't it be "I am comfortable with you"

Because this is what lies under your tone

We are merely coworkers now

Working to raise our little girl

Working to keep food on our table

Working to give her the perfect world

I don't want it to be like this!

This isn't what I signed up for

I want a husband, a friend, a lover

I want things like they were before!

I want to smile when I think of you

I want you to do the same

I want you to tell me I am beautiful

I want you to kiss me "that way"

I don't want to be in this routine anymore

I want things to be exciting and new

I want to feel sparks fly again

I want to experience these things with you

Until I have the courage

I will keep these things to me

I will scream in silence

And fall back into our old routine

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